The beginning ... 1

It is enough of a sign ... of fate. And the man of destiny, for Doors, group of students performing in the Los Angeles clubs, to be called Arthur Lee, leader of Love. Who hears the evening and went out of the hands with the head of his record, Jac Holzman, so he signs them. What Holzman eventually make snorting because he hates the group.
The Doors therefore find themselves on Elektra in ground almost hostile, and the studio to record their first album. Who will become the iconic disc of a generation, that of the flower power, and install the Doors on the rock roof of the world. Yet the Doors have almost all wrong to base. They are from LA, and things are happening in 1966 in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury, where rampant Grateful Dead, Airplane, Quicksilver ... It is time for the mystical planerie, the Doors present with Literary referred (Morrison admires Rimbaud among others, the group takes its name from a book by Aldous Huxley, "The Doors of Perception"). The Doors play garage rock and blues, hippies dream only sitar, tablas and mantras ... He is almost at the level of drug use and LSD Doors that are fitting with the rest of the California music scene.
The Doors are a pretty patchwork, three amateur jazz and blues, Morrison, who eventually impose its musical line. It must be said that this is the focal point of all eyes. Handsome, he electrifies the female audience in the first group of benefits (and it is always the girls who do the disproportionate success of a group, have ugly women Canned Heat why no girl has ever listened to their rustic boogie-blues monolithic ...) and became its leader.
This untitled debut album The Doors in this state of grace, they find themselves with their swan song "LA Woman" even better ... A record that starts with the cleat "Break on through" perfect card visit. Rhythmic swaying, jazzy organ Manzarek and Morrison singer "inhabited". And with the alternation of quiet passages and violent spurts. Rock'n'roll reviewed by the Doors. In the same vein, "Twentieth Century Fox", but Version "garage" with bouncy organ and guitar Krieger saturated ...
The blues roots are there, too, with the resumption of any controlled hysteria "Back door man" by Willie Dixon. Morrison pushes the charismatic singer cooing and girls will love the sweet lyrical ballad but not firefighter (hard exercise) of "Crystal Ship" or lysergic planerie with spatial sound effects of "End of the Night". This allows you to drag the names of Paul Rothchild, producer of all discs except the Doors "LA Woman" and Bruce Botnick, sound engineer throughout their careers.
A disc is not emblematic of psychedelia if there were not some baroque title. The literary pretensions of the group will take him in decadent cabaret Version fairly true to the original "Moon of Alabama" by Brecht and Weil pulled their opera "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"
A record would not be a best seller if there was any hit that mark his time. "Light My Fire" will be a huge success, the inevitable Summer of Love 67.
Finally, a disc does not come within the rock legend if he did not understand any capacity unconventional. "The End" will be the one. One of the first songs of the Doors, and more improvised writes cornerstone of all their concerts before they are signed. Long creepy and hallucinatory drift with Oedipal conclusion. It will mark many minds, including that of Francis Ford Coppola who will major musical theme of his "Apocalypse Now" ...
With this record, the Doors become unavoidable in 1967, and marked the return of American leadership on the world rock scene, dominated in recent years by the English (Stones and Beatles in mind ...). They offer a very strong electric alternative to psychedelic rock, their concerts are at that time very popular events before various drugs and "off the road" that go with self-indulgence and sabotage the live image of the group .
"The Doors" is a rather exceptional drive. It is debatable, but some even see the best "debut album" ever recorded (the first Elvis Presley, Little Richard Hendrix and Pink Floyd - non-exhaustive list - may also claim this title). In any case must drive the 60's and rock in the widest sense ...